Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-01
THE GRE AT SANTA FE.
ONE OF THE GREAT LINES or THE UNITEI
STATES

ONE OF THE GREAT LINES or THE UNITEI
STATES.
The best way to forecast what a rail
road is going to do is to consider what il
can do and what it ought to do from the
standpoint of its own best interests. This
is far more satisfactory than catching
rumors from the imaginations ofignoraut
subordinates or at empting to divine the
objects of the irnumerable surveying
parties that are taking deep.sea sound
ings in ell our mountain defileS.
Reasoning thus from the logic of the
situation there is room for the strong ST
conviction that the AtChisOn, Topeka and
Santa Fe will extend its Denver line into
Wyoming and ultimately even to Mon
tana. \ system of radisting branches
from this extension can bring the whole
Of Wyoming territory to Denver, its
natural market, and be as valuable to US
in the northwest as the RIO Grande has
been in the southwest.
The Santa Fe has q number of powerful
motives to impell 1t to this action. One is
desire to mske itself the popular Den
yer road. Having once been forced by
its situation to fight all our interests on
ious TO regain the good will it then lost,
and TO show US that it can do more for
cur city than any other road. The drifts
of events has brought it around to a
point where it can do this The traffic
situation has been so altered that it can
hencefOrth make more money by bringing
business to this city than it has hereto
fore made by diverting New Mexico trade
from US.
In the first place the Santa Fe-or the
Atchison, as il is called st the casts by
far the greatest and most powerful rail
road combination operating west of the
Missouri. 1t is holder and drawer than
any Of them, and has the nerve to push
into undeveloped regions without first
waiting to see if some other more ven
tuTesome lines can make dividends there.
It's enterprise IN building into New and
Old Mexico and Arizona, where disaster
seemed to await it, and its success in
building up profitable business there is
an assurance that it will not let WYom.
ing slone very long. 1t can get all the
money it wants. 1t has a policy Of build
ing road where it will be nee ed and of
fostering afterward the traffic that is to
sustain it.
In the second place, the Atchison al
ready has traffic within it's grasp which
demands that it extend into
Wyoming. We refer TO the live stock
from the breeding regions of
Texas to the fattening ranges of the
northwest. Within a few weeks Denver
will be the northern terminus of e north
and south AtchisOn system, SppToXimat- !
ing in Importance any OF our grest east
and west lines. One line of this stretches |
south to El Paso, and virtually TO the
City of Mexico, while the other, in g |
somewhat zisZag but practically direct /
'oute, reaches from Denver to Galveston. |
indeed, it is not generally realized here /
hat while we are looking forward to the /
completion of the Denver, Texas and |
ruff for connection with the Gulf, we
already have continuous line .
lnder the Atchison management /
o Galveston. This mas been re-
emily secured by the purchase of the
Colorado and Santa Fe from Galveston
0 Fort Worth and the recent completion
# an Atchison line from southwest
Kansas to Fort Worth. II is hardly in
peTatio1 yet, but it is needless to say
Inst it Contemplates vigorous competi-
ion with the Missouri Paclfc's Fort
Worth and Denver line, or rather COR
ection, which is now building
Having brought goods from Galveston
o Denver, the Atchison will be deeply
Interested in aiding their distributten
rom here into the great region beyoRass
o the northwest. Thus Denver may
asily end rapidly become the most i'm.
ortant center of traffic on thu entire
tchison system. That the lsster Is
taking great calculations on its future
Citations with our city IsseYident on /.
very hand Denver Republican. T